Mounting local drives
Nils Kassube
kassube at gmx.net
Wed Jul 22 07:52:36 UTC 2009
Oliver Grawert wrote:
> you should note though that /media has been created and is used for
> automounting pluggable media. the right place to do system wide
> mounts are subdirectories in /mnt. if you use /media (which you
> indeed are free to do, its your system after all) dont forget that if
> you plug in a removable device that registers as "Programs",
> "Downloads", "Music", "Personal" or "disk" (i.e. because someone who
> gave that USB key to you has labeled it like that) this device will
> likely mount on top of the existing mountpoint hiding what you had
> there before ...
No, the program for mounting devices to /media/whatever is intelligent
enough to not mount two devices at the same mount point. Actually it
isn't too intelligent because it only seems to check if the directory
/media/<label> already exists, no matter if there is something mounted.
If /media/<label> exists, the device will be mounted at a new directory
/media/<label>-1 /media/<label>-2 etc.
Nils
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